Events
Krakow really is a town that parties all year round. Krakow hosts a flurry of events that will captivate and entertain you. During the Summer months the Plac’s are abound with Festivals and cheer that guarantee plenty of smiles and lots of beers. During Winter Cracovians head indoors but continue to celebrate life and liberty and love!
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Shanties Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Place: Rotunda Club Date: 19.02Shanties Festival Although the sea is five hundred kilometers away, and even in a thousand years the global warming won't bring its shores to Krakow , the city is prepared for an onslaught of sea dogs. In fact, it suffers one every February since 1981 during the Shanties festival. The International Sea Songs Festival “Shanties” started off as a local event, taking place some 27 years ago in a basement of a community center in Krakow. Su... More »
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Category: Krakow Festivals
Tolerance Festival
Place: Krakow-Market-Square Date: 16.04Tolerance Festival While Krakow is perhaps the most gay-friendly city in Poland – and at one point Cracow planned to organize a promotional campaign aimed exclusively at the gay community – it seems that tolerance is still an issue to be discussed in the country. In 2003 several members of the Krakow branch of the Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Anti-Homophoby Campaign) decided to change the unfortunate course of events, by organizing the first Toleranc... More »
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Off Camera Film Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Date: 17.04Off Camera “Denmark (5 million inhabitants) gave the world Dogma, Romania (20 million) re-defined the cinema of the last decade. Isn't there anyone in the 40 million country of Poland that dares to speak his own voice?” - as the organizers of the Off Camera festival. What's that about? There's more: “Off Camera isn't a camera that's turned off, it's a camera that says 'no'. We throw our 'off' at the faces of the Polish film industry.... More »
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Art Boom Festival
Category: Krakow Festivals
Date: Late JuneArt Boom Festival When it comes to festivals , Krakow seems to have it all. Cracow has film festivals, like the Etiuda & Anima and the Krakow Film Festival . Krakow has classical music festivals, like the Festival of Polish Music , as well as pop music events – such as the Coke Live Festival . It also has theatre festivals – like the Boska Komedia – festivals rela... More »
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Category: Krakow Festivals
Summer Jazz Festival
Place: Piwnica Pod Baranami (Pod Baranami Cabaret) Date: 05.07Krakow Summer Jazz Festival The Summer Jazz Festival in Krakow is organized in the Piwnica pod Baranami. Although it has been a part of the Krakow jazz scene for only 12 years, the Summer Jazz Festival's tradition is more than 50 years old. The Summer Jazz Festival is organized in the Piwnica Pod Baranami . Since its establishment in 1956, the Piwnica pod Baranami wasn't just a cabaret of spoken sketches – it was a den of the young and creative jaz... More »
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